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For starters, the Recovery Act is the most ambitious energy legislation in history, converting the Energy Department into the world's largest venture-capital fund. It's pouring $90 billion into clean energy, including unprecedented invest...
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That mysterious Telltale mashup game teased last week? Telltale laid its cards on the table, revealing ... Poker Night at the Inventory , the second "pilot" game from the adventure publisher, which brings Team Fortress 2 's Heavy, Penny Arca...
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If you’ve seen Danny Boyle’s movie Sunshine , you may be a little disappointed: NASA’s mission to visit the Earth’s sun won’t include sending people up there. But NASA will be sending a spacecr...
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Norway has continued to live up to its clean energy reputation by publishing its first annual report on the Clean Energy for Development Initiative . This details nearly $130m worth of funds spent by the Norwegian Government on clean energy pro...
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“Over the past decade the use of renewable energy is becoming more important to people, industry and governments. Why? Renewable energy resources are not depleted, they are becoming less expensive, and they have a softer environmental impact.”
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AMSTERDAM — Greenpeace said about 500,000 Facebook users have urged the world's largest online social network to abandon plans to buy electricity from a coal-based energy company for its new data center in the U.S. Greenpeace Inter...
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Honey-bee populations are mysteriously dwindling worldwide. In England, the Banrock Station winery created the " world's first ad with live bees " to call attention to the problem. They used queen-bee pheromones to attract a giant swarm of b...
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Sadly, yesterday's gunman at the Discovery Channel was not the first incident of someone going berserk after taking in Gore's work.
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http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2010/09/02/chinas-monopoly-on-17-key-elements-sets-stage-for-supply-crisis/ China’s monopoly on the global supply of elements critical for production of computer hard disc drives, hybrid-electr...
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Earth today is one of the most active planets in the Solar System, and was probably even more so during the early stages of its life. Thanks to the plate tectonics that continue to shape our planet's surface, remnants of crust from Earth's formative ...
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Another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday gave fresh urgency to the debate over the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater oil drilling. Environmental groups renewed their calls to maintain or expand th...
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BUXTON, N.C. — Hurricane Earl blew toward the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday as a major storm with winds of around 145 mph as forecasters tried to pinpoint exactly how close the strongest gales and heaviest surge would get to North Ca...
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PAGO PAGO, American Samoa — American Samoa is going to make it illegal for stores to hand out plastic bags once a new law goes into effect early next year. Gov. Togiola Tulafono, who signed the ban into law last week, said the meas...
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Wouldn’t it be funny if we spent so long arguing about what to do about climate change that we ran out of cheap oil first? It is not beyond the realms of possibility, writes Dr David Ingles.
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Imagine Shenandoah National Park without its autumnal showcase of colors, or a sign along the Virginia coastline noting that the site of the Jamestown colony is offshore and under water.
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Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors , Green Daily , Japan
Tesla Roadster 2.5 - Click above for high-res image gallery
Less than four months ago, Tesla Motors entered the Japanese market by shipping a dozen or so right-hand d...
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Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Coda Automotive
Coda Sedan - Click above for high-res image gallery
Hawai'i is an appealing place to operate and drive electric vehicles (EVs) for four main reasons: range anxiety isn't a huge issue, ther...
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Agency chief Lisa Jackson is using her authority under the Clean Air Act to control carbon emissions
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# astronomy
It looks like a metal marble floating in space. Or the palantír of Orthanc, magically teleported from Middle Earth to 11,000 light years away, in the Cassiopeia constellation. But it's just a visual effect. This is the Bubble Nebula . More »
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Obama's Stimulus: 'The Most Ambitious Energy Legislation In History'
